Rainbow Six Siege is Cracking Down Hard on Community Toxicity

By
Vincent PeterJuly 15, 2018, 10:24 a.m.

The toxicity of our city, of our city, NO!

Warning: this article contains examples of racial slurs and other hate speech.

A few months ago Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege started taking community moderation very, very seriously, stating clearly that their goal was to keep toxicity and hate speech out of their game. As of right now, that system is in place and cracking down hard on any and all offenders.

According to a report from PC Gamer, Ubisoft has confirmed the implementation of a new system that will issue bans ranging from 30 minutes to permanent bans depending on the offense, when players use slurs or hate speech in the game's chat. One redditor tested out this new toxicity filter and, after typing a slur in the chat, was immediately kicked out of the match and banned.

As of right now, these aren't all permanent bans, and according to Siege's code of conduct, the bans go like this: The first time a player strays from the community guidelines, they receive a 30 minute ban. The second and third time, they get banned for two hours, and any further offenses will result in that player's account being permanently banned out of Rainbow Six Siege.

As these things always go, some gamers have responded to this new policy with... let's just say a distinct lack of grace. There is a lot of swearing and cursing from fans in Siege's twitter mentions that we can't show here, but the following interaction effectively encapsulates both the fans' and Ubisoft's stances on the matter.

Fighting against toxicity and cleaning up the Siege environment is a very real and important issue.

This is particularly great, because Siege is primarily a competitive multiplayer game. While it does offer a few PvE modes, the meat and bones of the game are in players interacting with each other, so it's excellent that the moderators are doubling down on keeping those interactions safe and inclusive.

Rainbow Six Siege is on its third season of post-launch content now, and is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.